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The B-21 Bomber Could Be the Coolest Plane EverAnd now the long-awaited Raider is finally under construction.
https://www.popularmechanics.com ^ | BY KYLE MIZOKAMI | JAN 22, 2021

Posted on 01/22/2021 11:31:38 AM PST by Red Badger

The first two B-21 Raider bombers are currently under construction in Palmdale, California.

The first flight will take place in 2022.

The B-21 Raider will replace the B-1B Lancer and B-2 Spirit later this decade.

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The first two B-21 Raider bombers are currently under construction in the California desert. The Air Force’s first new bomber in more than 30 years will replace most of the service’s heavy bombers—with the exception of the immortal B-52H Stratofortress. Although the B-21 Raider has mostly stayed on schedule, the Air Force has pushed the first flight back to the middle of 2022.

Of the two B-21s under construction, the first jet is “really starting to look like a bomber,” according to Air Force magazine. The second bomber is in its early production stages.

The B-21’s first flight was initially scheduled for December 2021, but Air Force officials warned last fall that the date was likely to slip. Officials seem fairly confident the Raider will fly next year, with the plane entering service “around 2026 or 2027.”

Artist’s depiction of a B-21 at Whiteman Air Base, Missouri. U.S. AIR FORCE

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The B-21 is the Air Force’s first new bomber since the 1980s. The B-1B Lancer bomber entered service in 1986, and the B-2 Spirit bomber followed in 1997. The end of the Cold War cut the number of B-2 bombers from 132 to just 20, as the lack of a nuclear-armed adversary reduced the need for bombers. The Air Force’s fleet of B-1, B-2, and B-52 bombers have proved useful in the last 30 years, racking up conventional missions against countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.


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To: Veggie Todd
“Raider” conjures violent images.

Used to. Now it conjures up images of inept $100M coaches in Las Vegas.......................

21 posted on 01/22/2021 12:06:40 PM PST by Red Badger (TREASON is the REASON for the SLEAZIN'.................................)
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To: SuperLuminal

Clinton gave the CCP the technology to be able to grind out triple angle sub props to make their subs more stealthily.


22 posted on 01/22/2021 12:07:47 PM PST by SkyDancer (Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Red Badger

It looks like a B-2. How is it better?


23 posted on 01/22/2021 12:12:46 PM PST by lurk ( )
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To: lurk

Smaller...........................


24 posted on 01/22/2021 12:13:23 PM PST by Red Badger (TREASON is the REASON for the SLEAZIN'.................................)
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To: Veggie Todd
“Raider” conjures violent images. To not offend anyone, the name should be “Petunia” or “The Dove”.

"The Dove of Death."
Kinda like, "The Duck of Death."
*insert pic of Richard Harris from The Unforgiven*
25 posted on 01/22/2021 12:19:48 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Only a moronic, suicidal group would try a Great Purge 2021 on an armed American. We're ready!)
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To: Red Badger

How many are we buying this time? 5?


26 posted on 01/22/2021 12:20:15 PM PST by hattend
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To: Red Badger

Keep pushing back the date until there is a military sympathetic Congress.


27 posted on 01/22/2021 12:21:35 PM PST by hattend
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To: Red Badger
Original B-21 prototype (1936)

28 posted on 01/22/2021 12:25:19 PM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (White Privilege does NOT begin with Being White but when you ACT "WHITE"! So, -- ACT "WHITE"!)
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To: SkyDancer

and wastes the money on Global Warming


29 posted on 01/22/2021 12:25:23 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

Would really like to ask those climate change/global warming fanatics: what caused the last ice age and what caused it to end?


30 posted on 01/22/2021 12:28:53 PM PST by SkyDancer (Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Red Badger

It’s time to put a stop to all defense projects that purport to defend the former US from foreign invasion, This country is already lost. We need to focus on creating a new alliance of free states and how to make that happen. The money wasted on international wars would be better spent carrying on efforts to shed us of our new tyrannical government.


31 posted on 01/22/2021 12:45:20 PM PST by DrPretorius
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To: DrPretorius
Most states are allowed to form their own army under the command of the governor of each state..
In the United States, state defense forces are military units that operate under the sole authority of a state government. State defense forces are authorized by state and federal law and are under the command of the governor of each state.

State defense forces are distinct from their state's National Guard in that they cannot become federal entities. All state National Guard personnel (to include the National Guard of the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the territories of Guam and the Virgin Islands) can be federalized under the National Defense Act Amendments of 1933 with the creation of the National Guard of the United States. This provides the basis for integrating units and personnel of the Army National Guard into the U.S. Army and, since 1947, units and personnel of the Air National Guard into the U.S. Air Force.[1]

The federal government recognizes state defense forces, as per the Compact Clause of the U.S. Constitution, under 32 U.S.C. § 109 which provides that state defense forces as a whole may not be called, ordered, or drafted into the armed forces of the United States, thus preserving their separation from the National Guard. However, under the same law, individual members serving in the state defense force are not exempt from service in the armed forces (i.e., they are not excluded from the draft). Under 32 USC § 109(e), "A person may not become a member of a defense force ... if he is a member of a reserve component of the armed forces." Nearly every state has laws authorizing state defense forces, and twenty-two states, plus the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, have active forces with different levels of activity, support, and strength. State defense forces generally operate with emergency management and homeland security missions. Most SDFs are organized as army units, but air and naval units also exist.[2][3] Depending on the state, they may be variously named as state military, state military force, state guard, state militia, or state military reserve.

32 posted on 01/22/2021 12:49:28 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

Where I grew up in southeastern Montana in 1984 I was hiking in the hills west of town and I once looked down at a B-52 flying low in a valley, maybe 150 feet above the ground. They used to practice radar evasion missions from Malmstrom Air Force Base by Great Falls. There is a radar station in Forsyth that they tried to hide from by flying low.


33 posted on 01/22/2021 1:03:09 PM PST by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns is are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: Red Badger

“The first two B-21 Raider bombers are currently under construction in Palmdale, California.”

Kelly Johnson is rolling over in his grave at this article and that sentence in particular.


34 posted on 01/22/2021 1:06:31 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democracy Dies With Democrats)
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To: central_va

That’s all great, but the Constitution is truly a dead letter, so any reference to it is now a waste of time. Look for states to just secede altogether and form an entirely new coalition. That’s the only way to recover our lost liberty from our tyrannical US junta.


35 posted on 01/22/2021 1:08:24 PM PST by DrPretorius
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To: Veggie Todd
Now you've done it! Petunia is highly offended. She's a peaceful gal, not some sort of Amazon warrior type gal.


36 posted on 01/22/2021 1:11:24 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democracy Dies With Democrats)
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To: DrPretorius
Look for states to just secede altogether and form an entirely new coalition. That’s the only way to recover our lost liberty from our tyrannical US junta.

And right you are!! But the best way might be to form HUGE red state armies then secede. Don't secede then try to form an army.

37 posted on 01/22/2021 1:13:08 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: SkyDancer

History started at breakfast for all of them.

Where I lived in NY State had a mile of ice only 17,000 years ago. Our place in Idaho had a half mile of ice around the same time. But none of those fanatical kooks know that. When you think about it, 17,000 years wasn’t that long ago.


38 posted on 01/22/2021 1:16:32 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democracy Dies With Democrats)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Global cooling WOULD be a crises worth fighting ( if that is possible ).


39 posted on 01/22/2021 1:17:58 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

I was stationed at Ellsworth in South Dakota. We were a B-52/FB-111 base. Would wake up early and go to the flight line to watch them take off. A true treat. And the term BUFF aptly fit.


40 posted on 01/22/2021 1:25:36 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Keep the Faith. Everything happens for a reason.)
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